Under the old man's narration, it soon became clear to Rhodes what was going on.

In fact, things are not complicated, the reason is also the task of the Frozen Lake, before Rod, there have been many mercenary guilds here to try their luck over the years, but because that ice demon is very troublesome and difficult to deal with, many mercenary guilds have returned with a feather, which is not surprising to Rod, if those people have succeeded, where is the turn to come forward to complete this task now?

And the problem lies with these failed mercenaries.

These mercenaries failed to defeat the Ice Demons, patted their butts and left, but they suffered the inhabitants who lived near the Frozen Lake. Although those mercenaries were defeated miserably in the face of the ice demons, but in any case, they fought with the ice demons, and woke the ice demons from their slumber——— any life will not have a good temper when they are woken up while they are asleep, and those mercenaries can pat their butts and leave, while these residents have to face the wrath of the ice demons, although the ice demons who are enclosed under the frozen lake cannot leave the lake, but it can create some low-level water elemental monsters to harass the nearby villages and towns, connect them a few times, It made the residents of Greentree Town miserable. Not only that, but after every battle with the mercenaries, the Ice Demon will draw water from the water source to make up for his own losses, which also causes the villages and towns on the shores of the Frozen Lake to have no water available, at least for a month, and at most half a year, these residents will face the dilemma of not having water. Although they can also go to the frozen lake and smash the ice there, no one knows if there is a terrible monster down there, will it be a problem to eat the water there? Naturally, these townspeople are still worried.

In the beginning. These townsfolk can grit their teeth and endure it, no matter what, as long as they can destroy this monster, then everything will be back to normal. But after so many years, the ice demons have not been destroyed, and these inhabitants finally can't bear it anymore. Although the previous life was also very hard, but when the mercenaries didn't come to provoke the ice demons, they were able to live anyway, and people's adaptability was very strong. But now, again and again, crusade after crusade. Failure after failure has made these residents miserable, and that's why. The attitude of the townspeople towards the mercenaries coming here to kill the Ice Demon has changed from warm welcome at the beginning, to cold bystanders, and now to passive opposition. They've had enough of being tortured by the Ice Devil. Anyway, that monster has been in the frozen lake for so many years, and he hasn't taken the initiative to do anything to them except sleep, so don't you still live the same life after enduring? It's better than letting the rough mercenaries provoke it now, and then have to put yourself to bear the wrath.

After listening to the old man's story, the mercenaries next to him looked embarrassed. Most of the mercenaries are low-level people, so they can better understand the feelings of these townspeople. Before, because of the different positions. Therefore, most of these mercenaries at first thought about the reward they would get after completing the task themselves, and if they couldn't complete the task, they naturally only focused on their own losses. As for the residents here, to be honest, the mercenaries didn't think much about it at all, after all, in their opinion, these residents were just employers who paid for it, and they still had to do the dangerous work themselves, and they hid far behind, and there was no threat to their lives. What else could be the matter?!

At this moment, Lijie also frowned, a little embarrassed. Although she was also born in the royal family, after all, she left the Golden City when she was very young and wandered around, so she naturally knows the mentality of the people at the bottom very well. If Marlene had been replaced, I am afraid that she would not have been able to understand why these people would rather suffer here than leave this ghost place, in her opinion, this is a bitter cold place, and it is so dangerous. Wouldn't it be nice to move your family? Hanging half-dead in this place, Marlene could not have understood it anyway.

And hearing the old man's words, Rod also groaned slightly, he didn't understand what these people thought. However, this mission must be completed by itself, this is the easiest of the current five-star missions for Starlight, if you give up this task, then it will be very troublesome.

In fact, the reason why those mercenaries were not able to defeat the ice demon before cannot be blamed for their weak strength, the mercenary guild is not a mercenary group, any mercenary guild has two or three strong people, if there are still people who underestimate this five-star task at the beginning, then in the back, the major guilds are also elite, there is no reason why they can't kill such a scourge. The reason for this is that these guilds have not drawn out the true body of the ice demon at all, and the ice demon is also a mid-level monster in the water element plane, and its own strength should not be underestimated, not to mention that most of the elemental creatures have the ability to manipulate and create the same elemental creatures that are lower than their own level, and the ice demon occupies the water source of the Cranmer region, where it can create as many water element monsters as it wants, and if the mercenary compares with it in this regard, it will naturally be defeated in the end. Because they couldn't figure out how to get the ice demons out of the water source to fight them, and the mercenaries were also humans, so of course they couldn't dive into the cold water to kill themselves. However, the ordinary method of leading out the boss after beating the little brother is useless for the ice demon who can continuously create water element monsters.

But for Rod, neither of the above points is a problem, and he has a way to deal with these troubles.

But before that, he still solves the problem at hand.

"Please follow me."

In full view of everyone, Rhodes did not answer immediately, but made an inviting gesture to the old man, and then the two walked to the side, whispered and began to talk in a low voice. Seeing their appearance, both the mercenaries and the representatives of the townspeople were very curious and puzzled, but none of them dared to go up and eavesdrop, so they could only stand by and watch from a distance, guessing what they were talking about through the expressions of the two.

Everyone in Rod's face couldn't see any clues, because he had been basically expressionless all along, and it was the same at this time. However, the mercenaries also knew about their strange and powerful president for a long time, and they knew that he was in a good mood when he was expressionless, and he suddenly smiled enthusiastically. Then it is a harbinger of bad luck. Now it seems that this elder of his own is in a good mood.

On the contrary, the old man seemed to be a little embarrassed, and in the face of Rod's words, he first shook his head, and then frowned, not knowing what Lu Dao was talking about. After hearing his words, Rod waved his hand coldly, obviously disagreeing with the old man's statement, and then he raised his head and stared sharply at the old man in front of him. Under his momentum, the old man in front of him couldn't help but cringe, but soon he mustered up his courage again and shook his head again, but this time it was obvious that the old man was not as resolute as before, but a little hesitant. But it didn't take long for him to look up and say something to Rod again. In the face of the old man's speech, Rod was still expressionless. But he suddenly raised his right hand and stretched out three fingers. Seeing Rod's action, the old man was silent for a moment, then said something, and finally, he nodded slowly. Rhodes reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and the old man turned and walked back to the other townspeople, whispering something to them. And I heard the old man speak. The townsfolk suddenly showed surprised expressions, and the young man who was shouting before even couldn't help jumping up, waving his fist and trying to shout something, but the middle-aged man next to him reacted quickly, and when he saw him jump, he slapped him down again, which made the young man shut his mouth. Then the men said goodbye to the mercenaries with a little coldness. Then he turned and left.

And it was only at this time that Rod walked back among the mercenaries. Seeing him return, Anne was the first to rush forward and excitedly shook Rod's hand. Swing vigorously from side to side.

"Anne knew that the head of the regiment still had a way, and those nasty guys were really driven away by you! What do you think? They won't dare stop us again! ”

Hearing Anne's excited inquiry, Rod nodded, and then he looked at the mercenaries around him and spoke.

"That's right, they agreed to try again, and I want them to assure you that this time we'll be able to complete the mission and defeat the Ice Devil."

"Oh————!!"

Hearing this, the mercenaries next to them couldn't help but shout, they actually had a resentment in their hearts, although these people's thoughts were not wrong. But most of the mercenaries are fierce and aggressive, and under the training of little bubblegum and canary, their strength has improved rapidly, and they are also quite dissatisfied with the fact that they are underestimated by these powerless people. However, they are unarmed, and these mercenaries are embarrassed to roll up their sleeves and teach them a lesson, so that this group of people can see how powerful they are. Now that Rhodes can help them solve this problem, the mercenaries are naturally very excited.

However, these mercenaries are also secretly determined in their hearts at this moment, in the next mission, they must let this group of hillbillies see their power, and at that time, see if they dare to underestimate themselves!

Seeing that his subordinates were so excited at the moment, Rod didn't say anything, just glanced at them, and then said lightly.

"Rest well today, head to the Frozen Lake tomorrow, and I hope you haven't forgotten the results of your training."

Hearing Rod's order, the mercenaries naturally responded, and then turned around and left one by one, preparing for tomorrow's battle. It wasn't until he saw them disperse that Rod shook his head slightly, then turned to look at Anne and Lijie in front of him. Then he spoke.

"Did you hear anything about the Frozen Lake this time?"

This time to the Frozen Lake, Rhodes did not bring all the men and horses, but according to the rules of the game, he formed a team of thirty-five people, of which thirty were used to deal with the ice demons, and the remaining five were used as substitutes, but also to prevent accidents. This can be regarded as a small cheat made by Rhodes with the help of a little difference between the game and reality.

Before this, Rhodes had always wondered why many aboriginal mercenary guilds had sent hundreds of people to besiege a boss, but it was still in vain. In the game, players only need 10 or 25 people to almost kill these bosses. At first, he thought that it was only because of the power gap between the natives and the players, so he chose to use crowd tactics to achieve the goal. But now Rhodes realized that he was wrong, the reason why those mercenary teams failed in a row was not only the difference in strength between the players and the natives, but also the number of people. Most of the bosses of team dungeons will have some group attack skills, but in the game, because the number of players is small, as long as they are properly prepared, it is not difficult to avoid those group attack skills. But the aborigines are different, most of them are not strong, plus they rushed up, intending to eliminate each other with crowd tactics, but instead fell into the trap of the boss. You must know that the entire attack of most bosses in the road is not even the player dares to resist and can only choose to dodge, these aborigines with lower strength are naturally going to die as much as they want, plus they have a large number of people, and there is not enough space to dodge, so most of the dead and injured are killed, so it is naturally difficult to defeat those monsters. Because of this, after the mission of the Pafield Line was over, Rhodes ordered Seven Lovers to take most of the people back to the fortress first, leaving only a small number of elites to go to the Frozen Lake to complete this mission. The reason why he didn't let Seven Love come with him this time was because Rod planned to train his subordinates to be independent. Seven Loves, Canary and Little Bubblegum are also his subordinates, in other words, if something happens to Rod, then their summons will disappear at the same time. And if you just rely on them, it will naturally not be a good thing for the guild. So in order to be able to exercise the independent combat ability of his subordinates, this time Rod sent Qilian back to the fortress and did not come with him——— if it weren't for the high level of the ice demon and the low level output damage of his subordinates, Rod didn't even want to take action himself.

In the face of Rod's inquiry, Lijie also took half a step forward, and then a trace of bitterness appeared on her face, and then she spoke.

"To tell you the truth, Mr. Rhodes, I did get some news this time......... That ice demon monster seems to be difficult to appear, according to the townspeople, the mercenary guild has surrounded and suppressed it several times in front, and I haven't even seen what the ice demon looks like, I'm worried about ..............."

"Don't worry, Lizzie."

In the face of Lijie's worry, Rhodes waved his hand, of course what did Lijie say, in the game, the entire frozen lake is where the map of the copy is located, and this map is not as hierarchical as the general copy map, on the surface, the frozen lake is just a frozen lake, and the mobs will appear from the ice in a steady stream, if you can't catch the tricks and requirements, the mercenaries can't even see the shadow of the boss at all, and will only be exhausted in the endless stream of mobs——— Not to mention NPCs, there are actually a lot of people who are so stupid among the players.

"This kind of thing should be solved by an expert, and I've found an expert who can awaken the Ice Demon and make it have to stand up and fight us."

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